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hardcover, 12 x 10, 144 pages, with 60 full-color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-59714-107-9 $35.00 Join Friends of Heyday and save 20% on your purchase. Download Press Kit Above All: Mount Whitney and California's Highest Peaks
Photographs by David Stark Wilson with text by Steve Roper; Foreword by Ken Brower
Photographs and stories of California's majestic Fourteeners California's "Fourteeners"—Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, and the loftiest peaks of the High Sierra—have long teased the imaginations and challenged the fortitude of mountaineers. Photographer and mountaineer David Stark Wilson captures the treacherous beauty of these summits and the surrounding panorama, evoking a broad range of emotion—from excitement and allure to a quieter sense of peace, respect, and awe. Steve Roper, a well-known climber and historian, provides accompanying text. Together Wilson and Roper weave an unforgettable tapestry of windswept splendor, historical data, personal anecdote, climbing mythology, and the natural history of California's highest peaks. 
About the Author and Photographer David Stark Wilson, born in Berkeley, California, is an award-winning building designer and has been a photographer since the age of seventeen. He is the author of Structures of Utility, published by Heyday in 2003. An avid mountaineer, he began to photograph mountain landscapes at an early age. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, Stacia Cronin, and children, Chase and Kai. 
Steve Roper has been writing about mountains for forty-five years. Growing up in Berkeley, California, he started climbing in his early teens and wrote the first-ever climbing guide to Yosemite Valley at the age of twenty-three. He has written extensively about the High Sierra, his favorite place on the planet. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Kathy, and still climbs modest hills. |
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